It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
HANS KUNGFor many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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I don’t cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That’s the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what “decreed” means.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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